P Quotes
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“Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.”
“Profits are determined by productivity; by value added and by efficiencies and effectiveness.”
“Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.”
“Profits are related to customer retention. Customer retention is related to employee retention. Employee retention may or may not be related to benefits, but benefits could be part of the package that causes people to stay and -- by the way -- engage in discretionary effort. .. If you go into any organization that's customer-facing, you can tell in five minutes when the employees are feeling abused. They retaliate on the customers.”
“Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.”
“Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.”
Source: Coll Sci Pap V5
“Profits are the result of productivity. Productivity is defined as ‘the effectiveness of effort as measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input.’ Profit exists within this margin. Therefore, any desire to increase profits must include reasonable actions to improve productivity.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“Profits are what you make when not working.”
“Profits drive our society to humanities detriment.”
“Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.”
“Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.”
Source: The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author
“Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.”
“Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.”
“Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.”
“Profondamente vi pensò, come attraverso un’acqua profonda si lasciò calare fino al fondo di questa sensazione, fin là dove riposano le cause ultime, poiché conoscere le cause ultime, questo appunto è pensare – così gli pareva – e solo per questa via le sensazioni diventano conoscenze e non vanno perdute, ma al contrario si fanno essenziali e cominciano a irradiare ciò che in esse è contenuto.”
Source: Siddhartha
“Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform.”
“Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993
“Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.”
Source: Of Men and Women
“Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.”
“Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.”
“Profound childhood deafness is more than a medical diagnosis; it is a cultural phenomenon in which social, emotional, linguistic, and intellectual patterns and problems are inextricably bound together.”
Source: Seeing Voices
“Profound commitment to a dream does not confine or constrain: it liberates.
Even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal if you follow it to the end.”
“Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.”
“Profound fear sat in Vulcan’s dark eyes watching Josie collapse. Her last thought before passing out – No worries, my love. We’ll mend our broken world together.”
Source: Vulcan
“Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.”
Source: Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)
“Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.”
“Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.”
“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.”
Source: My Life for the Poor
“Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.”
“Profound love, respect, spirituality, superstition, pietism: the path to eminence.”
“Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.”
“Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.”
Source: Salmonia: or, Days of fly fishing ... By an Angler i.e. Sir Humphry Davy . Third edition. With plates
“Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.”
Source: The Cornel West Reader
“Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.”
“Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God and love of all things in God - this is the sign that you are on this right path.”
Source: I Believe: The Promise of the Creed
“Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.”
“profound resources of inherent wisdom and health are alive in us”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“Profound responsibilities come with teaching and coaching. You can do so much good–or harm. It’s why I believe that next to parenting, teaching and coaching are the two most important professions in the world.”
“Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'”
“Profound silence would brood over the valley, even weighing down our spirits with indefinable heaviness. There can be no other place in the world where man feels himself so alone, so isolated, so completely ignored by nature, so incapable of entering into communion with her”
Source: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
“Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes
“Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.”
“Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.”
“Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.”
Source: The Original Home School Series
“Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.”
“Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order.”
“Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.”
“Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness.”
Source: Fat City
“Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.”
“Profs who go to Knossos to look for books on Phobos or Kronos go on to jot down monophthongs (kof or rho) from two monoglot scrolls on Thoth, old god of Copts - both scrolls torn from hornbooks, now grown brown from mold. Profs who gloss works of Woolf, Gogol, Frost or Corot look for books from Knopf: Oroonoko or Nostromo - not Hopscotch (nor Tlooth). Profs who do schoolwork on Pollock look for photobooks on Orozco or Rothko (two tomfools who throw bold colors, blotch on blotch, onto tondos of dropcloth).”
Source: Eunoia